Dr. Matthew Marullo

ALLi Author Member

Location: United States of America (the)

Dr. Matthew Marullo holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from Boston University and has been writing all his life. He is the author of four novels: The Octave Displacement (2006), Gludman’s Proof (2013), Till Times Are Done (2019), and Welcome To Opine (2022). Reviewers such as Foreword, Blueink, and Kirkus call his novels “unique,” “clever,” “intriguing,” as well as “expertly” and “masterfully” written. Welcome To Opine won first place for science fiction in the 2024 Feathered Quill Book Awards and a Silver Award for Reader Views. He also runs an educational podcast about great classical and film music, Dr. Music. Visit his website at matthewmarullo.com.

Dr. Matthew Marullo's books

WELCOME TO OPINE

Nine billion years into the future, the rogue planet Earth is captured by a blue dwarf star in another galaxy, eventually culminating in the rise of Homo Sapiens 2.0.  
 
Imagine a member of the ancient humans had buried deep in the earth a quantum computer containing a vast, digitized compendium of humankind’s history and achievements, all preserved within petabytes of quantum memory. 
 
This new human civilization, calling their planet Opine and themselves the Opinions, the first “i” pronounced with a long vowel, were granted the valuable benefit of hindsight. After spending decades studying “Ancient” history, the Opinions endeavored to expunge selfishness from the human genome through a genetic therapy called the Self Suppressor.

But what happens when one person develops a natural resistance to the therapy?   Would he then represent a threat to the gene pool? Will the Opinions be able to correct this genetic anomaly, or perhaps adapt it, in the interest of regaining a sacrificed part of their humanity?

One voice may know the answer. The voice of the man who originally buried the quantum computer billions of years ago…

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